Yesterday Google concluded its annual I/O keynote where executives laid out the company’s future roadmap for Android, Google Assistant, Google Home, virtual reality, and much more. One of the coolest features announced is the augmented powers Google Assistant has been given, allowing you to analyze the world around you with the help of your smartphone camera. Check out nine more of the most important takeaways from the keynote on The Verge.

Google's Assistant just got a pretty sweet upgrade!

Facebook, Messenger & Instagram Unite With Cross-App Notifications

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by notifications on your phones? Well Facebook is about to either make your life better or worse depending on your answer. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. This move will hopefully boost engagement across the platforms but it may also create more anxiety for users. TechCrunch

Do you love or hate those red dot notifications?

2 College Students Built A Tool To Fight Fake News On Facebook Using AI

Over the past year we have witnessed the rise of fake news on Facebook and 2 Berkley college students want to help stop it. In late April, the two computer science majors built a Facebook Messenger bot that, when fed a link, will tell you whether the article in question is or isn’t “fake news.” In addition to sussing out the validity of an article, it also offers a barometer showing whether the article is deemed biased toward the left or right. The Messenger bot, named NewsBot is currently one-of-a-kind. Mic

Fighting fake news with superpowers of AI!

Chelsea Manning Has Shared The First Photo Of Herself As A Free Woman

Chelsea Manning, the private first class soldier in the US Army who leaked more than 700,000 military intelligence reports and documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, shared a new photo of herself on Twitter after being set free yesterday. The photo has received an out-poring of support on the platform and has been already re-tweeted almost 7 thousand times! #HelloWorldBuzzFeed